A new year and a new IHG promotion. Answers to some Frequently Asked Questions below:

For newcomers to IHG promotions, note that Holiday Inn Express and Holiday Inn (including Holiday Inn Resorts) are two different brand categories for these things. If your dashboard says 'stay at a Holiday Inn Express' as one of the tasks and you stay at a Holiday Inn, it will NOT credit for the Holiday Inn Express task. (and vice versa)

For a task that says 'Stay X number of times at a Holiday Inn Express' (or Holiday Inn, Intercontinental, etc.) each stay must be at a different property for it to fully credit rather than staying at the same property multiple times.

An award stay only counts toward a task that specifically requires an award stay and will not count toward other tasks and night requirements for the purposes of the promotion. (Award stays do count toward general elite qualification, but that's outside this promotion)

'Redeem points' award nights only count for the 'redeem points' task and no other tasks. (example- an award night does not count toward 'Stay X number of nights')

At IHG, points + cash stays are simply points stays where you bought some of the points at the time of the reservation. Once you finish the reservation, a points + cash stay shows as a points stay. Thus points + cash stays only count for tasks where they are specified, and not other tasks.

Doing a points + cash booking and then cancelling it does NOT trigger a 'buy points' task completion. A 'buy points' task is a points transaction that is processed through points.com

The 'pay with your IHG credit card' task has typically been very slow to post. If it does within about two weeks of completing a stay, that's relatively quick, and it will often be several weeks beyond that, depending on when your statement closing date is and how IHG's system sweep is timed.

Some offers require booking within the promotion period in addition to staying during the promotion period.

I had difficulty with this one:Corporate Account Bonus
Stay 4 time(s) using your corporate rate and earn 5,600 bonus points.

As only 2 of my 5 stays on my corporate rate were appearing and the promo was ending soon. I sent an email to the ihg rewards club containing my booking confirmations for 2 of the missing stays and a screenshot of the accelerate page, and it was resolved nearly immediately.

I inquired about check in April 30 and check out May 1 2019 and was informed that yes it will count. So I think you are in luck.

This question, about the "last" night, comes up every time, and AFAIK IHG always counts the last night as part of the promo. However, I've read reports from previous promos that people who wait until the last night wait a while before the points finally post.

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Originally Posted by jerub

I had difficulty with this one:Corporate Account Bonus
Stay 4 time(s) using your corporate rate and earn 5,600 bonus points.

I had even more trouble with that one. I have never used a corporate rate to book an IHG stay, so I had no way to fulfill that offer. The IHG computer messed up when it included that offer for me.

Has anyone's "Your Achievement Bonus" points been posted yet? I met the "Complete 4 out of 5 offers" requirement by the deadline and all the other offer points are posted, but the Your Achievement Bonus is still showing 50% in progress.

Has anyone's "Your Achievement Bonus" points been posted yet? I met the "Complete 4 out of 5 offers" requirement by the deadline and all the other offer points are posted, but the Your Achievement Bonus is still showing 50% in progress.

I did sent a request through the "missing points inquiry" tool and the missing "achievement-bonus-points" were added promptly and with email confirmation.